China’s reassurance after missile test launch rattles Pacific
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China's Missile Test Reveals the Pacific's True Rogue State
On 6 July, at 12:01pm China Standard Time, the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) launched a ballistic missile carrying a dummy warhead from a submarine in the South China Sea. The missile (either a JL-2 or the new JL-3) passed over the northern Philippines, arced over the Second Island Chain, and finally made its descent between the islands of Nauru and Tuvalu, in waters close to the latter’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). “China is just beha…
Pacific island nations have condemned China's test of a long-range missile that landed in the heart of their shared "blue continent," according to politicians and experts interviewed by AFP. Even Pacific nations indebted to China joined in the criticism of the test of the long-range missile, which was launched from a submarine and flew far into the Pacific Ocean. The term "blue continent" is...
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